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Are there notable projects or organizations moved to gitlab.com? On top of my head I only know f-droid that is there. I use it for personal use and love it, w

Are there notable projects or organizations moved to gitlab.com? On top of my head I only know f-droid that is there. I use it for personal use and love it, would love if more projects moved away from github.com, especially open source.

sdesol 10y ago
I talked about GitLab and how they can compete against GitHub in this past comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155293 and at the present moment, they are still pretty far from being able to convince notable projects to leave github.com for gitlab.com The biggest issue right now, is there is a measurable difference between gitlab.com and github.com, which is, it's much slower. GitLab is working on this and I have no doubt this will become a non-issue in the future, but they still have to deal with the fact that you can't compete with being "as good as". Even if gitlab.com becomes as good as github.com, they will still have a difficult time, to convince others to leave github.com for gitlab.com I guess my point is, since github.com is the incumbent, the only way that gitlab.com can become the next place to collaborate, is they have to make it clear, that they are better than github.com They can't strive for equality, since you can't compete with "as good as".
- Vinnl 10y ago
  If they get to "as good as", they have the advantage of being open source. This could convince _some_ projects.
  - daxelrod 10y ago
    Note that gitlab.com runs on GitLab EE, their commercial product, which is not FOSS. This is why the GNU project hosts their own instance of GitLab CE for themselves.
connorshea 10y ago
Danger hosts their website with GitLab Pages[0], iTerm hosts their issue tracker there[1], the game Xonotic is hosted on GitLab.com[2], and then VLC[3] and GNU[4] both have their own instances of GitLab. [0]: https://gitlab.com/danger-systems/danger.systems https://gitlab.com/danger-systems/danger.systems [1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues [2]: https://gitlab.com/groups/xonotic https://gitlab.com/groups/xonotic [3]: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit [4]: https://git.gnu.io/explore/projects https://git.gnu.io/explore/projects
grumblestumble 10y ago
i think the killer feature of gitlab is still self-hosted instances. it makes it really hard to justify using github enterprise. as far as gitlab.com, i've toyed around with it on personal projects and it still has a very long way to go in terms of reliability and speed.
pawadu 10y ago
Well, F-droid is a pretty huge organization in terms of user count and repo activity: https://gitlab.com/fdroid https://gitlab.com/fdroid Otherwise, you can see the most star-ed repos here: https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred (I think more people should consider moving from github to gitlab or bitbucket, but for gods sake avoids googles new git site).

sdesol 10y ago

I talked about GitLab and how they can compete against GitHub in this past comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155293 and at the present moment, they are still pretty far from being able to convince notable projects to leave github.com for gitlab.com The biggest issue right now, is there is a measurable difference between gitlab.com and github.com, which is, it's much slower. GitLab is working on this and I have no doubt this will become a non-issue in the future, but they still have to deal with the fact that you can't compete with being "as good as". Even if gitlab.com becomes as good as github.com, they will still have a difficult time, to convince others to leave github.com for gitlab.com I guess my point is, since github.com is the incumbent, the only way that gitlab.com can become the next place to collaborate, is they have to make it clear, that they are better than github.com They can't strive for equality, since you can't compete with "as good as".

Vinnl 10y ago
If they get to "as good as", they have the advantage of being open source. This could convince _some_ projects.
- daxelrod 10y ago
  Note that gitlab.com runs on GitLab EE, their commercial product, which is not FOSS. This is why the GNU project hosts their own instance of GitLab CE for themselves.

connorshea 10y ago

Danger hosts their website with GitLab Pages[0], iTerm hosts their issue tracker there[1], the game Xonotic is hosted on GitLab.com[2], and then VLC[3] and GNU[4] both have their own instances of GitLab. [0]: https://gitlab.com/danger-systems/danger.systems https://gitlab.com/danger-systems/danger.systems [1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues [2]: https://gitlab.com/groups/xonotic https://gitlab.com/groups/xonotic [3]: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit [4]: https://git.gnu.io/explore/projects https://git.gnu.io/explore/projects

grumblestumble 10y ago

i think the killer feature of gitlab is still self-hosted instances. it makes it really hard to justify using github enterprise. as far as gitlab.com, i've toyed around with it on personal projects and it still has a very long way to go in terms of reliability and speed.

pawadu 10y ago

Well, F-droid is a pretty huge organization in terms of user count and repo activity: https://gitlab.com/fdroid https://gitlab.com/fdroid Otherwise, you can see the most star-ed repos here: https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred (I think more people should consider moving from github to gitlab or bitbucket, but for gods sake avoids googles new git site).